Quizbowl software

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Basically, lots of links to computery quizbowly stuff. Feel free to edit or help out in any way.

Question/packet databases

Search engines

ACFDB
Home page
Jun 05, 2008 ACFDB - a new tossup database
Gyaankosh
Home page
Sep 21, 2008 Some new question database
Feb 25, 2009 Gyaankosh?
QBDB
Home page
May 18, 2006 Quizbowl tournament database, alpha version
Jan 13, 2008 return (sorta) of the question database
May 03, 2008 QBDB thread

Comparison of search engines

Name Creator Released Updated Questions Tournaments Tagging? Rating? Types of questions Technology
ACFDB (visit) Carlo Angiuli June 2008 13339 [1] Yes No ACF Question Archive only PHP and MySQL
Gyaankosh (visit) Arnav Moudgil September 2008 Late 2010 50898 [2] 99 [3] Yes No Both collegiate and high school Django (Python and MySQL)
QBDB (visit) Jerry Vinokurov May 2006 Early 2010 37 Yes Yes Collegiate only PHP and MySQL


Archives

HS QB Packet Archive
http://quizbowlpackets.com/
Collegiate Packet Archive
http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/
Stanford Packet Archive
http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/
ACF Question Archive
http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/archive.php
Wastebin
http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/
http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=9100

Stats

Stats programs

SQBS
Home page
QBSQL
Google Code page
New web-based quizbowl stats software project
Round Report on Stats
Taft
Home page
Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software
Taft: Launching soon
Taft launching soon...
Taft now supports playoff brackets
Shutting down Taft
BEeS
Home page
Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program
BEeS, Part 2
Tournament Central
Home page
QBTPS
Home page
I needed a database project
Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)
Tournament Director
Home page
SourceForge page
GitHub page
Livestat
Home page
JAGUARS
SourceForge page
Chris Carter's stats iPhone app
Home page
https://github.com/cdcarter
Excel score sheets
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742
Excel Scoresheets on Hunter

Comparison of stats programs

Name Creator Released Updated Version Price Output formats Documentation Platforms Technology License
SQBS (visit) Chris Sewell 2004 or earlier? February 2010 4.0 Free SQBS, HTML [4] [5] [6] Windows only
QBSQL (visit) Avram Lyon October 2008 February 2010 0.7.1 Free SQBS, HTML [7] All; web server required PHP and MySQL GNU GPLv2
Taft (visit) Evan Silberman January 2007 February 2010 Discontinued $25 per event SQBS, HTML All Ruby on Rails
BEeS (visit) Sean Skaar, Andrew Hart Not yet TBA

Rankings

NAQT Statistics Database
http://www.naqt.com/stats/
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=6159
Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients
http://byko.servehttp.com:6174/bqbq/

Parsing

QB Toolbox
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/
QBML
Jul 09, 2007 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?
Aug 18, 2007 Packet archive project...what you can do to help
May 16, 2008 LaTeX and packets
Alejandro's Packet Parser
Dec 26, 2010 Packet Parser

Tournaments

Tournament writing/management

QED (Question Editing Database)
http://www.aegisquestions.com/qed/
Tournament Question Database
http://www.scobo.net/qdb.aspx

Tournament databases

2005 tournament database
Aug 22, 2005 Tournament database feedback
HSQB Tournament Database
hsquizbowl tournament database
Aug 29, 2008 New tournament database for all quizbowl events

Other

IRC and stuff

TriviaBot
http://www.aegisquestions.com/triviabot/
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8147
http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~alopezlago/qbbot/
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2981
http://code.google.com/p/qbbot/
Quizzy
http://code.google.com/p/quizzy/
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=8871


"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364

Study guides

Organizations

PACE
http://www.pace-nsc.org/
ACF
http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/
NAQT
http://www.naqt.com/